464 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



There was a report circulating in the town that this was not the 

 first or largest outbreak of this sort in the town, but upon investi- 

 gation it was found that the only recent deaths in pastures were in 

 1897. In the Wm. Hartwell pasture, located in the southern part 

 of the town, about two miles from the Adams pasture, H. Clarke 

 found four of his yearlings dead, and Edgar Tilton found three of 

 his dead in a pasture about two miles from these other two pastures. 



A. S. Cleaves. 



As already stated above, Mr. Herrick visited the John 

 Adams pasture with Dr. Cleaves and Mr. Clarke, July 31. 



August 4, Dr. Peters, Mr. Herrick, Dr. Cleaves, Mr. 

 Clarke and Mr. J. H. Burtch, mspector of animals of Hub- 

 bardston, visited the Adams pasture and the surviving 

 animals that had been removed from it, and also the Bennett 

 pasture. 



August 18, Dr. Theobald Smith accompanied Dr. Peters, 

 Mr. Herrick and Dr. Cleaves to Hubbardston. On the way 

 from Gardner to Hubbardston a Mr. Le Claire of Temple- 

 ton informed the party that he had just found two yearlings 

 dead in his pasture. Time did not permit of a visit to his 

 premises, but from his description the heifers died from a 

 similar malady to that occurring in Hubbardston. Upon 

 arriving in Hubbardston, the pasture of David Meaney was 

 first visited, and an autopsy made upon a heifer that died 

 the night before ; but decomposition had been so rapid that 

 no specimens were taken, as they were valueless for scien- 

 tific investigation. The Newton pasture was next visited, 

 but no new cases were found there on this date. From the 

 Newton pasture the party drove to Princeton and went to 

 Mr. N. B. Reed's, where the four-year-old Devon cow, 

 mentioned in Dr. Cleaves' report, was in quarantine. The 

 animal was killed, and specimens taken from the local lesion 

 in the throat and various viscera for examination by Dr. 

 Smith. 



August 29, Dr. Langdon Frothingham visited the Newton 

 pasture with Dr. Cleaves, when a three-year-old heifer 

 which was sick was killed for autopsy and specimens talien 

 for scientific study. September 6, autopsy on Morgan 

 heifer was made by Dr. Cleaves, Mr. Herrick being with 

 him. 



